I don’t think they will be able to reprogram him. They stopped waterboarding and after trading him for five of the most ruthless and blood thirsty terrorist since Bin Laden, they are not about to prosecute him for desertion or treason.
My guess is that they will keep him locked up in his own little Guananamo hospital room until they can sneak him back to Afghanistan to unite with his friends and family.
They are hoping this will blow over before Boehner accidentally grows a pair and appoints a select committee.
Let’s take the current training about captivity that the US military teaches its members. It used to that we would reveal nothing to an enemy except name, rank, and serial number. Experience with cruel regimes taught our military that such a standard was unrealistic. So now they teach to do what you can to stay alive to fight another day, and if you have the opportunity, to do something odd/outofcharacter/secretivemessaging/etc, so that our people would know that circumstances prevent you from being direct.
I don’t see that in Bergdahl’s behavior. It certainly doesn’t mean taking up weapons on behalf of the enemy. That is odd, but not in the sense of “resistance”.
James Rosen says there was an escape attempt. Not only is that unconfirmed, but it doesn’t mean Bergdahl was trying to get back to the US even it is does turn out to be a fact.
Is it possible that Bergdahl had a full-fledged psychotic break? Sending his gear home seems to indicate otherwise.
Is this Stockholm syndrome? I don’t see that because Bergdahl wasn’t taken against his will. He went looking to get picked up by the Taliban.
So, we have a deserter who might not have liked the group he was with but who eventually came to accept it and joined with them.
I, too, won’t be surprised to see him back in Afghan quickly if he is not convicted at court martial and sentenced to additional jail time.